Two Brockton men may see assault charges against them upgraded to murder after the man hospitalized in a brutal beating last week died Thursday night.

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Police told The Enterprise that Brian Bishop, 41, had been fighting for his life in a Boston hospital since being attacked by two men in the parking lot of The Lit bar on Ames Street last Friday.

“I just think it was a senseless thing. I wish I could have been there to help,” Peter Damon, a childhood friend of Bishop’s, said after learning about his friend’s death. “I’m just shocked and saddened by the whole thing.”

Kent Johnson, 44, and Rodney Finch, 45, were charged in the attack.

A spokesman for the Plymouth County District Attorney’s office said Friday morning that no additional charges had yet been filed against Johnson and Finch, but added the matter continued to be under investigation.

The paper reported that if Bishop’s death is ruled a homicide, it will be Brockton's first of the year. By mid-June 2011, four people had been murdered in the city.

Hospital officials said Friday morning that Bishop had died, but declined to offer further details. Brockton Police Chief Emmanuel Gomes also said confirmed Bishop’s death.

Gomes said the Police Department was still looking into the incident and pointed out the department has filed a complaint against The Lit with the city’s licensing board.

“All that is being looked at. There’s a continuing investigation that’s going on parallel to this case,” the chief said.

“In the past we have taken action against bar owners that have had incidents on their properties,” Gomes said.

According to the complaint, the owner and employees of The Lit did not call police during or after the attack. Owner Ralph Lawcewicz even told police, according to the report, it was a mistake to install security cameras because “now the police are able to see whatever they want to see.”